THE leader of Islamic State (ISIS) has released a desperate video begging fighters not to abandoned the blood thirsty terror group.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made the last-ditch plea to fanatics as he warns them that everyone is against them and they won’t get through this difficult time without them.

It has been reported that the terror network no longer holds any cities in Iraq and fighters have been told to concentrate their efforts in Syria.

In the video, a desperate al-Baghdadi says: “Our Muslim community is passing through a difficult time in its journey.

“This period has seen a massive change to its journey going all the way back through the history of the Caliphate.

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“The breaking of the Sykes/Picko borders has allowed jihadists to begin appearing across the Islamic world and inside their own countries.

“Because of this everyone will be, and is, against us.

“The Mujaheddin are still in the Caliphate today, and those that are connected to it are still fighting for the Muslim Revolution.”

This comes as US troops are encircling a jihadi stronghold in Syria claimed by ISIS to be in old Islamic prophecy as the site of the final battle – triggering the apocalypse.

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According to the extremists' warped ideology, Dabiq – a tiny town in northern Syria – will see a “major apocalyptic showdown with the armies of the infidel” that will result in the collapse of civilisation.

Turkish troops backed by America commandos are understood to be just three miles from the town.

One of the founders of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is quoted in the grotesque group’s propaganda magazine as saying: “The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify – by Allah’s permission – until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq.”

In recent days Turkish artillery fire has hit the town, in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

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